Alex Ponca Stock

Catalog

An abstract textile art piece on a red background, featuring tangled white, striped, and colorful fabric strips creating dynamic, flowing shapes with embroidered swirling lines.
A geometric artwork features colorful embroidered insects in a grid, with a blue square and overlapping stitched lines in the center. The background is gray, and insects form a border around the composition.
Abstract artwork featuring green line drawings of four bearded faces, blue hexagonal shapes above, and a black rectangle with red dots below, all set against a multicolored background.
Blue background with abstract red string patterns, green and blue lines, and small blue and green dots scattered throughout, creating a dynamic and geometric visual effect.
Abstract textile art with black and white horizontal stripes, red and blue thread shapes, a central beige column with colored rectangles, and small colored squares throughout.
A yellow background displays rows of rectangular, colorful patches bordered in red, blue, or green, with more scattered rectangles at the bottom, some overlapping, resembling cards or fabric swatches in different patterns.
Two rectangular textile pieces on a gold background: the top piece is magenta with green stitched teardrop shapes, and the bottom piece is red-orange with abstract stitched outlines. Both have beaded trim at the bottom edge.
Two embroidered patches on blue backgrounds: the top patch has green and red geometric shapes; the bottom patch features abstract red designs on light blue, all set against a dark green surface.

Alex Ponca Stock

Born: 1986, Santa Fe, NM

Biography and Information

Biography
Alex Ponca Stock investigates community, culture, experience, and perception in her abstract beaded broadcloth works. Broadcloth is historically significant to her as it was used as a form of currency between the Osage people and early European traders and has been used in Osage regalia for hundreds of years.

Originally trained as a painter, Ponca Stock is inspired by the color field, minimalist, and abstract expressionist movements. Each piece, made from glass beads stitched onto vibrantly colored broadcloth and cashmere wool, is an homage to the traditional materials and techniques of Osage regalia with a strong awareness of the past, present, and future of the medium.

Alex Ponca Stock (b. 1986) is a painter and beadworker from the Gray Horse District of the Osage Nation and the third generation in her family to graduate form the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited by the Denver Art Museum, the First Americans Museum, and the Osage Nation Museum, among others. Her work can be found in the Fidelity Art Collection, the New Mexico Arts Collection, and numerous private collections. For three years running, Ponca Stock’s work has been awarded Best in Category at the Santa Fe Indian Market, and in 2025, she additionally won Best in Division. The artist splits her time between Santa Fe, NM and Fairfax, OK.

In the tradition of oil painting, the work reveals that color is relative; subject to change and movement based on its surrounding environment. In the tradition of Osage lifestyle and philosophy we can see that color is a relative, alive and imbued with disposition, history and spirit. – Alex Ponca Stock

Education
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Exhibitions
2026
Particle and the Wave: Oracles and Symbols for Living and Dying, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2025
MOVEMENT, 101 Archer, Tulsa, OK

2024
Color Relatives, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Voices of the Drum, 2019-present traveling exhibition, Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, OK; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO;  First Americans Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Renaissancing the Osage, Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, OK

2023
Mapping Sovereignty, 150 years of the Osage Reservation, Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, OK

2021
In-Dialog: Artists’ Exploration of Indigenous Spaces, Woodward Park Headquarters, Tulsa, OK
OSAGE 2020: Views from Within, Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, OK

2020
Re/Convening, Ahha Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2018
Y’all 20, Amplify Arts, Omaha, NE

Panels, Talks and Press
2026
Sara Atencio-Gonzales, 3 Questions with ABQ abstract artist Alex Ponca Stock, The Paper., September 17, 2026

2025
MOVEMENT artist panel/discussion for closing of exhibition, 101 Archer, Tulsa, OK

2023
Ruby Hansen Murray, The Wonder of Osage Community, Osage News, December 7

2022
A Frame of Mind podcast celebration, panel speaker, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Episode 3: A Frame of Mind, podcast guest, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

2021
Discussion Facilitator for Osage Creatives, Exhibits and Programming with Osage artist Yatika Fields and Andy Klemmer from Paratus Group, Osage Nation Museum, Online
Moderator for Roundtable discussion on fine arts practice in Osage cultural setting, specifically in consideration of major exposure due to Killers of The Flower Moon book and movie, Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, OK

Select Special Projects and Residencies
2026
1st place ribbon for "Best in Category," Southwest Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market)

2025
1st place ribbon, 2nd place ribbon and judged "Best of Division," Southwest Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market)

2024
1st place ribbon, Southwest Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA, Santa Fe Indian Market)
Founding Member of Native Fashion Arts Collective, INDIGICHIC, experiential fashion/arts boutique offering exclusive collections of Native American art works, Tulsa, OK

2022
The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

2021
In-Dialog: Artists’ Exploration of Indigenous Spaces, Sites of Conscience and National Endowment for the Arts, Tulsa, OK
Red Cat Goods, Limited edition commission for Grand Opening, First Americans Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
In the Absence of Gathering, Anita Fields and Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK

2020
Hunt, Gather, Grow Virtual Camp 2020, Osage Nation and Osage Nation Museum, Osage Nation, OK
Red Cat Goods, commission for the Hearts of Our People Exhibition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
6 time Grant recipient, Osage Nation Foundation, Osage Nation, OK

2019
featured artist in symposium, Illuminative Oklahoma and Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

2011
Fabrica De Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Collections
2025 Fidelity Investments

Press Release
2025 Richard Levy Gallery at EXPO CHICAGO
2024 Richard Levy Gallery at Atlanta Art Fair
2024 Color Relatives at Richard Levy Gallery